Another week and another email from you pal Elder Perkins reporting from Cote d'Ivoire announcing that it has been another amazing week! And yes I finally had chawarma after so many years of seeing Avengers and it is super good!
We had the baptismal service for Frère Christ on Saturday! I got to be one of the witnesses and then also the next day I got to pass the sacrament to him right after being confirmed so it was the first time he took the sacrament as a member so that was special and he also got up and bore his short and sweet testimony afterwards. It was the strongest I have felt the Spirit in church and is one of the many memories that I will cherish from my mission.
This Saturday was the Annual Stake Relief Society Activity and I expected it to be something like in the movie the RM where they showcase ice sculptures or something but I was dead wrong. Basically every ward either did a little skit or a dance and they just blasted music the whole time and almost everyone was standing the whole time dancing so it was like a party and it lasted for 4 hours! Missionaries aren't allowed to dance so all of the missionaries were just in the back however the temptation was great to just jump up and start dancing haha. It was cool to see their culture a little more and get to know the members better. And afterward they had some super good food. The beauty of Africa is that for some dishes you eat with your hands and I love it. I was already a messy eater before my mission and it will only get worse hehe.
And now it's time for the fun Africa stories! First off people confuse us all of the time as missionaries from other churches which is probably pretty common for missionaries. The most we get is Jehovah's Witness but this week on two separate occasions people thought we were from the Anti-Christ church that is here and we immediately shot that down because we are the exact opposite of that haha. The power went out a total of who knows honestly this week so it was pretty hot. One night the power went out twice so I got barely any sleep. A lady stopped us in the middle of the road yesterday and invited us inside her house and introduced us to everyone because her son told her about how he sees us all of the time. The mother introduced us to her son Junio and said every time we walk by we have to come say hi so we definitely didn't say no. As we left the mom said to her son "Now you have a white friend"
WEEKLY WISDOM: LIGHT. THE. WORLD. Follow the calendar that the church sent out as much as you can and remember the true meaning of Christmas!
Photos!
1. Picture at the Relief Society Party with some photobombers
2. CHAWARMA
3. Baptism pic with Fr Christ and Fr Elie, a nine year old from the ward that got baptised too!
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